Nutanix caused a stir on Twitter last week after holding a party in Vegas featuring scantily clad female venue staff. One of the hyper-convergence startup's top execs has vowed to quit if it happens again.

VMware's acquisition of Arkin, a startup whose technology provides visbility into security and operations in virtual environments, could make NSX software-defined networking more attractive to customers.

Cisco Systems and top hyper-convergence startup Nutanix are actively discussing a partnership that would marry the former's UCS servers with the latter's software, sources told CRN, but much work remains before an official announcement.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman says the new CSC-HPE Enterprise Services business will be a 'powerhouse IT services' company, while the remaining $33 billion HPE standalone business will be a software-defined infrastructure standout.

Nutanix, the top startup in the market for hyper-convergence technology, goes after smaller customers with a scaled-down version of its technology, in a bid to attract new customers before its planned IPO.

Partners that work with Cisco and VMware say they're expecting the recent thawing of relations between the longtime partners to eventually result in integration of their software-defined networking technologies.